Thro' Lattice-Windows
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ISBN13: 9780217902540
Paperback|9780217902540
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: deed send him a few tracts of a somewhat inflammatory description, but as they were accompanied by a large basket of provisions, including cakes made with their own frail hands after a special recipe transmitted through ten generations of Splashetts, their conduct might be confidently accounted to them for righteousness. Dexter became a sort of inverted hero. It was remembered that he had' always been kind to the children, and a man who had known him in St. Colam in earlier days industriously spread the rumour that before his wife died Dexter had been a ' reg'lar church-goer ' and ' as decent a chap as might be.' 'Ay, ' said Craddock, ' Dexter's none so bad. A man as sings at his work ain't never very bad, though he don't allers sing what's fittin'. I 'd liefer trust him any day than a fellow like Geake, whose face is allers screwed up hard as though his mouth was full o' sour sloes, an' his blood run vineger. I 'll warrant now as Geake thinks them poor childer is made away wi' jest because they did n't come to schule reg'lar. It 'd be a mighty poor sorter world if Geake was the Lord A'mighty.' Dexter's own view of the situation was pathetically simple. ' I 'll allow, ' he said to the curate, with tears streaming down his face, ' that I did n't deserve no childer like them. But, Muster Reckitt, I loved 'em dear, I did. I promised her as died I 'd allers look well arter 'em, an' so I hev. You ask 'em if I ain't loved 'em dear. An' I 'll tell you what, Muster Reckitt, if so be as God 'll let me hev 'em back, I 'll never touch another drop o' drink as long as I live. Look 'e here, Muster Reckitt, them 's their best clothes, an' them's Johnny's little shoes what I mended mysel', an' many a night I 've set up a-menden their little things. P'raps if I 'd ha' bought 'em some toys .
| ISBN-13 | 9780217902540 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217902545 |
| Weight | 0.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 150 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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